Wasco News

By Sam Craig The Chronicle Some decisions are easier to make after eating a handful of freshly-picked cherries.

The first turbines erected for phase two of Portland General Electric's Biglow Canyon Wind Farm have started generating electricity, PGE officials said.

Sherman County now officially has only one elementary school. Though, said Sherman County School District Superintendent Ivan Ritchie - and the principal of the newly-named Sherman Elementary - the district has known that for a while.

Even with two mayors backing them, the group of parents and community members who are trying to keep North Sherman Elementary School from closing are having some problems convincing the district that it would be an economically feasible idea.

With a unanimous motion at their June 8 meeting, the Sherman County School Board made some drastic changes that ruffled feathers across the county.

The faith of Oregon's native and pioneer forebears is the subject of the Line in the Sand Tour "ROAR," , coming to The Dalles Monday as part of Oregon's 150th anniversary of statehood.

Wasco Sherman Public Health Department will expand July 1 to include Gilliam County, according to an announcement from Teri Thalhofer, department director.

The 22nd annual Community Cleanup event will take place on Saturday, May 9. In addition to picking up litter throughout town, The Dalles residents can also dispose of yard debris and other unwanted items by taking them to the National Guard Armory, at the corner of Sixth and Webber Streets, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Volunteers and donations are still ...

The family of the Pioneer Woman of the Year settled in Sherman County during the 1890s.

With her daughter's pre-wedding party well under way in Southern California, Gina Wilcox didn't hear her cell phone ring, so a friend picked it up and learned the unthinkable news from home.

The U.S. environmental movement, which began to emerge in the 1800s, often is viewed as a fairly recent phenomenon since it did not achieve widespread public support until the 1960s-70s. But to Lillian Pitt - a Native American artist whose heritage can be traced to the Warm Springs, Yakima and Wasco tribes of the Pacific Northwest - living in ...

Federal funds recently received by the Rural Oregon Continuum of Care, OR ROCC, will help keep housing assistance and supportive services alive for homeless individuals and families in 23 Oregon counties.

Businesses damaged by the worst winter storms in the Willamette Valley in 40 years may qualify for low-interest disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Senator Ron Wyden will hold his 500th town meeting in Fossil Tuesday, Feb. 17. Number 499 will be held that morning in Gilliam County; number 501 later that afternoon in Sherman County.

Controversy from the beginning Oregon City, pictured in 1857, two years before statehood.

By KATHY GRAY of The Chronicle Wasco County conducts its business in marbled halls these days, but when Oregon was born, a day short of 150 years ago, the work went on behind clapboard walls above creaking ...

"Round Dance," a hand-printed lithograph, is among several works from Lillian Pitt, a contributing artist for "Rock Art Perspectives: Pictographs and Petroglyphs" at Bend's High Desert Museum.

Get the Flash Player to see this player. Submitted Photo Suquamish artist Betty Pasco lived in her grandmother's home, but like many from her generation, she did not learn to weave from her elders.

During two traffic stops in one shift last weekend, a Sherman County sheriff's deputy bagged more than $40,000 worth of marijuana and arrested three men in what authorities termed a "good night of police work." ...

By SAM CRAIG of The Chronicle For the past eight months, the North Wasco School Board has been feeling a bit incomplete.